Anthropic Gains Top Meta AI Researcher as Autonomous Threat Disclosures and iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders Converge
On September 11, 2026, AI researcher Andrew Tulloch left Meta's Superintelligence Labs for Anthropic. Simultaneously, Anthropic disclosed severing autonomous AI cyberattacks and model distillation by 7 foreign labs, as Apple prepares to open iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders.
Key points
- AI researcher Andrew Tulloch defected from Meta's Superintelligence Labs to Anthropic.
- Anthropic neutralized autonomous AI-orchestrated cyber exploitation and distillation from 7 foreign AI labs.
- Security advisories instruct developers to revoke package publishing access for autonomous coding agents.
- Apple iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders launch at 5:00 AM PDT / 7:00 AM CDT starting at $1,199, with deliveries on September 18.
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